Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 00:51:47 -0700 (PDT) From: <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: sean@chittenden.org, dougb@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, dougb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/27195: /etc/services file out of date Message-ID: <200105310751.f4V7plw41095@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Synopsis: /etc/services file out of date State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback State-Changed-By: dougb State-Changed-When: Thu May 31 00:46:12 PDT 2001 State-Changed-Why: Here is the problem, that apparently I didn't explain clearly enough. Unfortunately, some applications and systems frequently depend on the broken behavior we already have. Unless there is a good reason to make a change, it's generally a bad idea to do so. Good reasons include: 1. Something is broken due to non standards-compliant behavior. 2. Some new functionality requires a change or addition. Your suggestion of making a binary database for services is well taken, however your patches didn't make it into the post, please resend them. For more information on this topic please look through the PR database and find several more PR's on this topic, several of them opened by me. :) There is even more discussion about it in the mail archives. Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->dougb Responsible-Changed-By: dougb Responsible-Changed-When: Thu May 31 00:46:12 PDT 2001 Responsible-Changed-Why: I have familiarity with the problem. http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=27195 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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